Senior Media Trainers - Ukraine

Deadline for applications: Open until filled.

Location**:** Lviv or Kyiv, Ukraine (remote considered)

Contract type: Consultant

Input: We are creating a talent pool of experts who can be called upon to undertake consultancy work on our Ukraine projects.

Start date:  Varied but could be as soon as October 2022.  There will be an ongoing requirement for expertise over the course of our projects.

About IWPR

Founded in 1991 and operating currently in three dozen countries around the world, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) is an award-winning international media and human rights development network, with charitable status in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

The Role:

IWPR is undertaking a range of initiatives in Ukraine focused on strengthening the capacity of Ukrainian journalists to safely, effectively and professionally report from the frontlines to increase audience access to balanced, independent information.

This initiative includes providing a range of mentoring and training support to journalists and fixers most at need in Ukraine, particularly on physical and digital safety and security, combatting and building resilience to disinformation, and conflict and gender sensitive reporting. IWPR is currently implementing four projects in Ukraine, including Ukraine Voices, supported by the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), with additional projects expected to begin in late 2022.

To serve its ongoing and expanding capacity building programming, IWPR is seeking short-term consultancies by Senior Media Trainers and Mentors to provide training and mentoring activities both in person in the Ukraine (primarily Lviv and Kyiv) and also online.  These would be provided to Ukrainian journalists located both inside and outside of the country.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct a needs assessment to identify training needs and capacities of participating journalists to inform the design of tailored training and development programmes;
• Design and develop tailored training and mentoring programmes for participants;
• Provide face-to-face and remote mentoring support to journalists and fixers;
• Organize and deliver in-person and/or online training workshops and events on such subjects as physical and digital safety and security, conflict and gender sensitive reporting, disinformation, open-source investigations (OSINT), media sustainability, and other subjects as determined via the participant capacity needs assessment.
• Coordinate with IWPR’s M&E advisor to develop an M&E plan and evaluate the outcomes of the training and mentoring sessions.

Skills

The successful candidate will possess:

• A minimum of seven years of experience in media and media development;
• Extensive networks of contacts within the Ukrainian media sector;

They will also be

• Fluent in Ukrainian and English (other languages considered an asset); and have
• Experience conducting training and mentoring programmes in Ukraine.

Principals only. No calls please. Only those who have been considered for an interview will be contacted.

IWPR is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, veteran status or pregnancy and maternity. IWPR will never ask for payment for recruitment.